“Sociological work on the relationship between art and society has been largely restricted to speculative, sociohistorical theories that are often mutually opposes”(Stack and Gundlah 211). That was a quote by the authors of The Effect of Country Music on Suicide, Steven Stack and Jim Gundlach. They were the first sociologists to do research on the effect a genre of music on the brain. In the article the two authors analyze the theory of how country music causes suicide. They break up their text in four sections The Explanatory scheme, Methodology, Results, and Conclusion.
The first section, the Explanatory Scheme, gives you the 5 main themes by which they find thy data: national subculture, disharmony between sexes, theme of alcohol abuse, how they chronicle the lonesome and abusive features of life, and exploitation at work. National Subculture points out that the audience of country music “is still disproportionately white”(212) and the suicide rate among the white population is twice as high as blacks. Secondly, disharmony between the sexes, is a …show more content…
They both are about how music is relates to violence in some way: rap music to youth violence and country music to suicide. The country music article elaborates more on the data they collected showing that country music had a positive correlation to suicide rates for whites but along with their findings. They added a disclaimer that white people are two times more likely to commit suicide than black people which might of messed with their findings. On the other hand, the article on rap music vs. violence focuses more on how America fostered rap music and with the violent culture that we are, parented it into existence. They both did a good job of including empirical work into their findings and it was not an overwhelming amount, and the work the authors put in added a level of
The first section, the Explanatory Scheme, gives you the 5 main themes by which they find thy data: national subculture, disharmony between sexes, theme of alcohol abuse, how they chronicle the lonesome and abusive features of life, and exploitation at work. National Subculture points out that the audience of country music “is still disproportionately white”(212) and the suicide rate among the white population is twice as high as blacks. Secondly, disharmony between the sexes, is a …show more content…
They both are about how music is relates to violence in some way: rap music to youth violence and country music to suicide. The country music article elaborates more on the data they collected showing that country music had a positive correlation to suicide rates for whites but along with their findings. They added a disclaimer that white people are two times more likely to commit suicide than black people which might of messed with their findings. On the other hand, the article on rap music vs. violence focuses more on how America fostered rap music and with the violent culture that we are, parented it into existence. They both did a good job of including empirical work into their findings and it was not an overwhelming amount, and the work the authors put in added a level of